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Amazing American History - Jews Made a Profound Impact
- De Jimmy Rosen en 12-27-21
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The Mayflower
- The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
- De: Rebecca Fraser
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had 80 casks of butter and two dogs but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing. They were ill prepared for the brutal journey and the new land that few of them could comprehend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I kept saying "Oh My Goodness!"
- De Midwestern en 11-29-19
De: Rebecca Fraser
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Pilgrims and Puritans: 1620-1676
- Drama of American History
- De: James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier
- Narrado por: Jim Manchester
- Duración: 1 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 336
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 335
In Pilgrims and Puritans, the authors begin in the year 1620 in England and end in New England in the year 1676. The book recounts the religious, political, and social history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its influence on our lives today. The narrative follows various groups of settlers from their departure from England through arrival in the New World and their often violent conflicts with the native peoples of the Americas. The authors examine a number of issues that arose in the new society that was founded and the rise and fall of the "city on a hill."
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5 out of 5 stars
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We need a Puritan revival
- De pat hanley en 08-10-21
De: James Lincoln Collier, y otros
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Dreams of Africa in Alabama
- The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
- De: Sylviane A. Diouf
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
In the summer of 1860, more than 50 years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading in all schools.
- De Anonymous User en 12-31-21
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Fifth Sun
- A New History of the Aztecs
- De: Camilla Townsend
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves. Camilla Townsend presents an accessible and humanized depiction of these native Mexicans, rather than seeing them as the exotic, bloody figures of European stereotypes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ethnocentric ethnohistory
- De Jeffrey D en 03-24-21
De: Camilla Townsend
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Murder at the Mission
- A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
- De: Blaine Harden
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good history; wanted more indigenous perspective.
- De Anonymous User en 07-06-21
De: Blaine Harden
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Away Off Shore
- Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
In his first book of history, Away Off Shore, New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories behind what was once the whaling capital of the world. Beyond its charm, quaint local traditions, and whaling yarns, Philbrick explores the origins of Nantucket in this comprehensive history. From the English settlers who thought they were purchasing a "Native American ghost town" but actually found a fully realized society, the story of Nantucket is a truly unique chapter of American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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There once were some (wo)men in Nantucket...
- De Darwin8u en 02-03-19
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The Hemingses of Monticello
- An American Family
- De: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 30 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 827
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 614
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 609
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worried at first
- De Phillip Goodson en 12-13-08
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In Search of Our Roots
- How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
- De: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 33
Most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying Black men and women even their names. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes 19 extraordinary African Americans on a once unimaginable journey, tracing family sagas through US history and back to Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De LadyC Speaks en 04-17-19
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
- De: David Graeber
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 5 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies—vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of the European empire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fun historical analysis of Pirate political systems
- De Ian Turner en 01-30-23
De: David Graeber
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On Juneteenth
- De: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 3 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 502
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 499
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A short but compelling combination of history and
- De BK en 05-18-21
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Young Benjamin Franklin
- The Birth of Ingenuity
- De: Nick Bunker
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth, he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of 41, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Book but LOTS of Names
- De Tim en 10-31-19
De: Nick Bunker
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This Land Is Their Land
- The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
- De: David J. Silverman
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
In March 1621, when Plymouth’s survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth’s governor, John Carver, declared their people’s friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the 'First Thanksgiving'. The treaty remained operative until King Philip’s War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story as believable as it is tragic
- De Amazon Customer en 12-05-19
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Amsterdam
- A History of the World's Most Liberal City
- De: Russell Shorto
- Narrado por: Russell Shorto
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 583
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 523
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 520
In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the idiosyncratic evolution of Amsterdam, showing how such disparate elements as herring anatomy, naked Anabaptists parading through the streets, and an intimate gathering in a 16th-century wine-tasting room had a profound effect on Dutch - and world - history. Weaving in his own experiences of his adopted home, Shorto provides an ever-surprising, intellectually engaging story of Amsterdam from its golden age to the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth Reading - Highly Recommended
- De Whit B en 05-12-14
De: Russell Shorto
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The Viking Heart
- How Scandinavians Conquered the World
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 131
Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers — including the most famous, the Vikings — would reshape Europe and beyond.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Confused and not worth the time and money
- De Jacob The Dane en 08-16-21
De: Arthur Herman
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The Jamestown Brides
- De: Jennifer Potter
- Narrado por: Charlotte Strevens
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 402
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 340
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 340
Jamestown, England's first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger - from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates were impossibly high: six out of seven settlers died within the first few years. How clear these and other perils were made to the 56 young women who left their homes and boarded ships in England in 1621, nearly 15 years after Jamestown's founding, is not known. But we do know who they were. Their ages ranged from 16 to 28, and they were deemed "young and uncorrupt".
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4 out of 5 stars
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WOMEN IN HISTORY
- De Grams en 06-29-19
De: Jennifer Potter
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American Rebels
- How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution
- De: Nina Sankovitch
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution. American Rebels explores how the desire for independence cut across class lines, binding people together as well as dividing them -rebels versus loyalists - as they pursued commonly held goals of opportunity, liberty, and stability. Nina Sankovitch's new audiobook is a fresh history of our revolution that makes listeners look more closely at Massachusetts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved this book!
- De John H en 06-22-20
De: Nina Sankovitch